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3) Geek love
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Description
A wild, often horrifying, novel about freaks, geeks and other aberrancies of the human condition who travel together (a whole family of them) as a circus. It's a solipsistic funhouse world that makes "normal" people seem bland and pitiful. Arturo the Aqua-Boy, who has flippers and an enormous need to be loved. A museum of sacred monsters that didn't make it. An endearing "little beetle" of a heroine. Sort of like Tod Browning's Freaks crossed with...
7) Freezer burn
Author
Pub. Date
c1999
Description
Loner, loser, and sometime armed robber Bill Roberts finds himself in over his head when he bungles a raid on a fireworks stand and takes refuge in a cut-rate traveling freak show that is kept going by the magnetic aura of the mysterious frozen man.
10) Vampire Mountain
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Mr. Crepsley leads Darren Shan on a dangerous trek to Vampire Mountain, the very heart of the vampire world, to be presented to the Council, but an encounter with the Vampaneze along the way means trouble
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Formats
Description
In 1599 England, twelve-year-old lying, thieving Will Sparrow runs away, meets many colorful characters on the road, and then reluctantly joins a traveling "oddities" exhibit, where he learns to see beyond appearances.
12) Lenin's kisses
Author
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
In the bucolic village int he middle of a sweltering summer, it suddenly begins to snow, a hot snow that falls for seven days - seven long days that not only transform summer into winter but that forever disrupt the balance of life. This mystifying that melds fable, history, and satire in an enthralling tragicomedy set in modern day China. Nestled deep within the Balou mountains, by a large spared fromt he government's watchful eye, the people of...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2007, c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Living nightmare: Two boys who are best friends visit an illegal freak show, where an encounter with a vampire and a deadly spider forces them to make life-changing choices.
Vampire's assistant: After traveling with Mr. Crepsley, the vampire who made him into a half-vampire, Darren returns to the freak show known as the Cirque du Freak and continues to fight his need to drink human blood.
Tunnels of blood: Darren, Evra, and Mr. Crepsley leave the...
17) Freaks
Author
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
Description
After leaving home in search of adventure, romance, and riches, seventeen-year-old Abel, the "normal" son of freak show entertainers, is haunted by a mysterious spirit.
19) Freaks
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Description
In Victorian London, a lonely band of misfits trapped in a sideshow decides to put their extraordinary talents to use to solve the mysteries that no one else cares about, starting with the stealing of poor children from the banks of the Thames.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Formats
Description
"Darren Shan's days as an ordinary schoolboy are over, and his life as the vampire's assistant has begun! With his mentor, Lartan Crepsley, Darren joins the Cirque Du Freak and slowly begins settling into his new role there, an adjustment made simpler when he makes a couple of new friends. But life as a half-vampire can never be easy or ordinary -- as Darren learns only too well when tragedy strikes!"--P. [4] of cover.